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post #31 of 33
1/23/10 at 4:24pm

Kickbacks

OK, I currently am a district chef with sodexo and attended a training on this topic. What your talking about are an actual contract agreement between the manufacture/supplier and the company. They agree to a set price and a rebate of "x" amount per case, and you agree to buy "y" amount of cases during a set amount of time. the "rub" would be if you didn`t make the set amount of purchased cases, then the "scale" would work backwards.In larger corporate companies this can translate into thousands or millions of dolllars.
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post #32 of 33
1/23/10 at 9:19pm
That's an agreed on contract. Nothing funny about that. If you can move 10 grand worth of prime rib and put your money where your mouth is, you have earned the reduced price.

A kickback is when you spend, say $4,000 a month with the produce guy, and he slips you an envelope with $200 cash at the end of the month.

The employer is out $200, and it shows up as over priced goods. The employer would be better off offering a 5% bonus on food cost--at least the Chef/purchaser would sweat for it.....
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post #33 of 33
1/24/10 at 1:59am
Over priced is right.....hence why I never took any of these kickbacks; it only takes a switched on GM or FC to check around on prices, ask the obvious questions and draw obvious conclusions- either the chef is incompetent or he's profitering from the over inflated prices. Either way you're fu%*ed!:cool: NOt worth the risk IMO...
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